Team India's Updated Squads for Champions Trophy 2025: There is not much time left for the start of the Champions Trophy. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the updated squad on Tuesday ahead of the tournament starting on February 19. Fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah is out due to a back injury. Young bowler Harshit Rana has been included in the team in his place. Apart from this, leg spinner Varun Chakraborty has been made a part of the 15-member squad, he will join the team in place of Yashasvi Jaiswal. BCCI has kept Mohammad Siraj, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal as reserves.

Bumrah was named in India's 15-member preliminary team announced last month for the Champions Trophy, but he could not play in the ODI series against England, which is India's last series before the Champions Trophy starting on February 19. Bumrah was injured during the fifth Test against Australia in Sydney and has not been able to play any match since then. He has not found a place in the final team due to a back injury. The Indian team has suffered a major setback due to the absence of the fast bowler.

“Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy due to a lower back injury. The Men’s Selection Committee has named Harshit Rana as Bumrah’s replacement," BCCI said in a release on Tuesday night.

Bumrah last played a 50-over match for India on November 19, 2023, against Australia at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In that match he picked up two wickets but failed to help the Rohit Sharma-led side get the better of Pat Cummins & Co. and win the ODI World Cup 2023 title.

Harshit-Varun got a Chance to Debut

Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty got a chance to debut in ODIs in the first two matches of the ongoing three-match ODI series against England. Rana made his debut in the first ODI match played in Nagpur and has played both the matches of the series so far and has also impressed in the middle overs. On the other hand, India also gave a chance to debut to spinner Varun Chakraborty, who was successful in impressing in the five-match T20 series against England.

India is included in Group A in the Champions Trophy which also includes Pakistan, Bangladesh and New Zealand. India will play all its matches in Dubai under the hybrid model as it refused to go to Pakistan for this tournament. There will be 15 matches in this tournament of eight teams. This tournament will last for 19 days. The league match between India and Pakistan in the Champions Trophy will be played on 23 February (Sunday).

India’s squad for ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.

Non Travelling substitutes: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj and Shivam Dube.